In 1934, Morris opened Milton's, at Troost and Armour Boulevard. When liquor was legalized, Morris opened a succession of nightclubs, including the Hey Hay Club, the Novelty Club and the Latin Quarter. Here he circumvented Prohibition laws by selling "prescription" alcohol. By the time he was 18, he owned a drugstore at 26th and Troost called the Rendezvous. He sold newspapers as a child and later attended Manual High School and Whittier Business College. Milton Morris was born in Kansas City, one of six children, and raised in an orphanage after his father abandoned the family. Decades after the heyday of Kansas City jazz, Morris ran a bar that kept the music and spirit of that legendary period alive as a haven for jazz aficionados. He befriended and provided work for countless local musicians and helped launch the careers of several international jazz stars, most notably Count Basie, with whom he maintained a life-long friendship. Operating his first nightclub during the Pendergast years, he was a member of the generation of Kansas City nightclub owners who came after Felix Payne. His storytelling skills, wisecracks and foot-long cigars also secured his reputation as one of the city's most colorful characters. For example, Joshua Redman plays the role of Lester Young, Craig Handy plays Coleman Hawkins, Geri Allen plays Mary Lou Williams, and James Carter plays Ben Webster.Nightclub owner, raconteur, and aspirant to political office, Milton Morris was one of the great champions of Kansas City jazz. The soundtrack was produced by Hal Willner and Steven Bernstein and featured several contemporary musicians playing the roles of jazz musicians from the 1930s. Soundtrack Professional ratings Review scores Harry Belafonte won the New York Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor.
He praised the period recreation of colors and looks of the clothes, cars, and advertising and was reminded of Altman's other 1930s gangster movie, Thieves Like Us (1974). He filmed their work in a concert documentary style, and intercuts it". Roger Ebert gave it three stars for Altman's "originality and invention", saying the story is "fairly thin" but "Altman gathered some of the best living jazz musicians, put them on a set representing the Hey Hey Club, and asked them to play period material in the style of the Kansas City jazz giants ( Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins, Jay McShann, Lester Young, etc.).
Kansas City received mixed to positive reviews from critics, as it holds a 60% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 40 reviews. Frederick Louis Richardson as club dancer (extra).She is impressed by Blondie's devotion to her husband, contrasted to her own loveless marriage.Ī subplot concerns political fixer Johnny Flynn (Buscemi) paying vagrants and addicts to vote in the upcoming election and sway the outcome. Stilton does everything he can in order to free his wife by saving Johnny, including using his connections to the Tom Pendergast political machine. Stilton into helping to free Johnny.ĭespite the risk to his re-election campaign, Mr. Stilton, who is addicted to laudanum (an opium liquid) and has secrets of her own. Blondie herself kidnaps the wife of a local politician, Mrs. Blondie O'Hara's (Leigh) petty thief husband Johnny is taken by gangster "Seldom Seen" and held prisoner at the Hey Hey Club, one of the hot spots of the Kansas City jazz scene.
A kidnapping goes down in 1934 Kansas City.
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